rebelde

adj.

1 rebel (sublevado).

ejército rebelde rebel army

2 rebellious (desobediente).

ese niño es muy rebelde that child is very disobedient

3 unmanageable (difícil de dominar) (pelo).

4 defaulting (law).

5 stubbornly disobedient, rebel, fractious, froward.

6 not responding to treatment, intractable, refractory.

f. & m.

1 rebel (sublevado, desobediente).

2 defaulter (law).

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rebelde

► adjetivo

1 rebellious

2 figurado (tos etc) persistent

► nombre masulino o femenino

1 rebel

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noun mf.

rebel

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1. ADJ

1) (=que se rebela) rebellious

el gobierno rebelde — the rebel government

ser rebelde a algo — to rebel against sth

2) [niño] unruly; [resfriado] persistent; [mancha] stubborn; [pelo] wild; [problema] difficult; [sustancia] difficult to work with

3) (Jur) defaulting

2. SMF

1) (Mil, Pol) rebel

2) (Jur) defaulter

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I

adjetivo

a) <tropas/ejército> rebel (before n)

b) <niño/carácter> unruly, rebellious

c) <tos> persistent; <mancha> stubborn

d) (Der) defaulting (before n)

II

masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel; (Der) defaulter

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I

adjetivo

a) <tropas/ejército> rebel (before n)

b) <niño/carácter> unruly, rebellious

c) <tos> persistent; <mancha> stubborn

d) (Der) defaulting (before n)

II

masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel; (Der) defaulter

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rebelde¹

¹ = punk, enfant terrible, insurgent, rebel.

Ex: Cyberpunk is a cultural label encompassing many different kinds of punk attitudes, including clothing and lifestyle choices.

Ex: Vesalius, considered in his time a scientific 'enfant terrible,' revolutionized medicine and science by insisting that truth could be established only by direct observation.

Ex: While the drug smugglers are said to be stronger than the states in which they live, Marxist insurgents have been fighting with them for several years.

Ex: The article is entitled 'The Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution: rebels against the future: lessons for the computer age'.

rebelde²

² = unruly, rebellious, insurgent, fractious, wayward, resistive, disorderly, riotous, insurrectionary.

Ex: 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.

Ex: The urge to mechanize paper-making came at first as much from the papermakers' desire to free themselves from dependence upon their skilled but rebellious workmen as from the pursuit of production economies.

Ex: This growth accompanied an insurgent professionalism.

Ex: Thus was Christianity codified into a Bible that still today is the central element in the faith of the two billion adherents of the largest, if most fractious, of the world's religions.

Ex: The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.

Ex: This game was developed in order to facilitate the therapeutic process for those children who are `inhibited, constrained or resistive'.

Ex: As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.

Ex: I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.

Ex: Most obviously, the insurrectionary movements of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were informed by notions of nationality.

* ángel rebelde = rebel angel.

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rebelde¹

adjective

1 ‹tropas/ejército› rebel (before n)

2 ‹niño/carácter› unruly, rebellious

3 ‹tos› persistent; ‹mancha› stubborn

4 (Der) defaulting (before n)

rebelde²

masculine and feminine

1 (Mil, Pol) rebel

2 (Der) defaulter

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rebelde adjetivo

a) ‹tropas/ejército› rebel (before n)

b) ‹niño/carácter› unruly, rebellious

c) ‹tos› persistent;

‹mancha› stubborn
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel
rebelde
I adjetivo
1 (carácter, actitud) rebellious: es un niño muy rebelde, he's a very unruly child
2 familiar tiene un pelo muy rebelde, her hair is quite unmanageable
3 (persistente) stubborn
una mancha rebelde, a stubborn stain
una tos rebelde, a persistent cough
4 Mil rebel
II mf rebel
'rebelde' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
indómita
- indómito
- respondón
- respondona
- espíritu
English:
rebel
- rebellious
- stubborn
- unmanageable
- unruly
- defiant

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rebelde

♦ adj

1. [sublevado] rebel;

ejército rebelde rebel army

2. [desobediente] rebellious

3. [difícil de dominar] [pelo] unmanageable;

[tos] persistent; [mancha] stubborn; [pasiones] unruly

4. Der defaulting

♦ nmf

1. [sublevado, desobediente] rebel

2. Der defaulter

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rebelde

I adj rebel atr

II m/f rebel

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rebelde adj

: rebellious, unruly

rebelde nmf

1) : rebel

2) : defaulter

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rebelde¹ adj

1. (niño, etc) rebellious

2. (tropas, etc) rebel

rebelde² n rebel